[267] Father Lambert, in Missions Catholiques, xii. (1880) p. 41; id., Mœurs et Superstitions des Néo-Calédoniens (Nouméa, 1900), pp. 97 sq.

[268] Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, 14.

[269] Th. Shaw, “The Inhabitants of the Hills near Rajamahall,” Asiatic Researches, iv. 69 (8vo edition, London, 1807).

[270] M. Bloomfield, Hymns of the Atharva-Veda (Oxford, 1897), pp. 7 sq., 263 sq.; W. Caland, Altindisches Zauberritual (Amsterdam, 1900), pp. 75 sq.

[271] Plutarch, Quaest. conviv. v. 7. 2, 8 sq.; Aelian, Nat. animalium, xvii. 13.

[272] Schol. on Aristophanes, Birds, 266; Schol. on Plato, Gorgias, p. 494 B.

[273] Alfred Newton, Dictionary of Birds (London, 1893–1896), p. 129.

[274] Pliny, Nat. Hist. xxx. 94. The Greek name for jaundice, and for this singular bird, was ikteros. The Romans called jaundice “the king’s malady” (morbus regius). See below, p. [371], note⁴.

[275] Nat. Hist. xxxvii. 170.

[276] This precious remedy was communicated to me by my colleague and friend Professor R. C. Bosanquet of Liverpool. The popular Greek name for jaundice is χρυσῆ.